07/20/2012

Corporate Compliance and Human Rights Clashing Over New SEC Policy

As the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) continues to pile on more and more complicated regulations in their pursuit of better corporate governance and more transparent business practices, a new rule, aimed at ensuring that companies can verify that the source of their mineral materials do not originate from any undesirable areas or through questionable practices, is now being enacted. However, as straightforward as the desired result may seem, actually applying a system which acts to track, monitor, and govern such finite information across borders and continents is not quite as simple as the end result itself may seem.